Note 1037 — Chapter IX · THE LANDS
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Other explanations of earthquakes were sometimes given. It was occasionally argued that seismic disturbances are not the result of purely physical causes but are punishments sent by God. It was also held by some that they are due to movements in the mass of waters which was thought to permeate the earth, or else to the collapse of subterranean cavities as a result of the erosion caused by these waters. See Stegmann’s elaborate discussion of this matter and his many references, op. cit., pp. 44–73.